House Proceeding 03-24-09 on Mar 24th, 2009 :: 2:30:40 to 2:34:25
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John A. Boehner: massive this is. i yield now to our leader, a man that we respect and admire from the eighth district of ohio, leader john boehner. mr. boehner: i thank my colleague for yielding and thank the rest of my colleagues for participating in this discussion about the budget. before we get to the budget,

2:30:40 to 2:34:25( Edit History Discussion )
Speech By: John A. Boehner

2:30:58 to 2:31:18( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: you know, i held those 1,100 pages up and indicated that no one had read the bill, it was pretty clear no one had. because someone had read the bill, they would have realized there were 50 words in there that protected a.i.g. executives to make sure they were going to get their bonuses. more proof that we have to actually read what we pass

2:31:19 to 2:31:40( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: through on the house floor. the discussion, though, is about the budget and i've seen a lot of things over the years that i've been in politics and whether it be a township trustee in westchester or in the state house or the 18 years i've spent in washington, but i've never seen a legislative document more audacious, more

2:31:41 to 2:32:03( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: far-reaching and frankly more bizarre than the budget that's been submitted by president obama. because it does spend too much. it's pretty clear. when you look at the giant increases in spending. but the not just that it spends too much. it taxes too much. there's nearly $2 trillion worth of new taxes that are imposed on the american people

2:32:04 to 2:32:24( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: in that budget. whether it's the national energy tax, for those who uld drive a car or those who would produce something of electricity or someone who would flip on a light switch. every american igoing to pay a higher tax. but even with all the spending and the much higher taxes, look

2:32:25 to 2:32:46( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: at what happens. look at what happens to our debt. even after $2 trillion of new taxes, the national debt will double over the next six years under this proposal more than what's happened in the -- proposal. more than what's happened in the 43 presidents that preceded president obama over the last 220 years.

2:32:47 to 2:33:07( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: now there are a lot of criticism of president bush, criticism of republicans. that we didn't have a bi enough handle on spending. frankly i ree. we should have had a bigger handle on spending but having said that, over the next six years, president obama's budget is going to make president bush look like a penny pincher.

2:33:08 to 2:33:28( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: and look at the debt. and what's going to happen here with all of this debt that's piled on the backs of our kids and grandkids means that in about 10 years, 70 cents out of every tax dollar that mes to washington is going to be used just to pay the interest on the national debt. just the interest.

2:33:29 to 2:33:49( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: 70 cents of every dollar. so what happens to our national defense? what happens to our homeland security? what happens to medicare, medicaid, social security and all of the other government programs that we have? there's not going to be any money for them. because all of the debt that's going to get billed up, interest has to be paid on that

2:33:50 to 2:34:10( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: debt and the fact is it won't happen. this budget, we need to start over. i had a press conference earlier today where i suggested to the president, why don't we just start over? why don't we sit down as democrats and republicans and build a budget that restores fiscal sanity and sow owe -- shows the american people we can work together for the good

2:34:11 to 2:34:25( Edit History Discussion )

John A. Boehner: of our country? we can't buy our way to prosperity. that's what this budget seems to believe. and i would hope my colleagues would help each other understand the enormous debt